Bacidia allotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Details

Name scientific

Bacidia allotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 4, 100 (1926)

Preferred name

Bacidia allotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Taxonomy reference

Galloway, D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand; Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. Revised second edition. Vol. 1. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Galloway, D.J. (2007)

N: S: Throughout

Nomenclature

Authors

(Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Original authors

Nyl.

Combination authors

Zahlbr.

Publication place

Zahlbruckner, A. 1926-1927: Catalogus Lichenum Universalis. Vol. 4. Verlag von Gebruder Bomtraeger, Leipzig.

Year published

1926

Publication page

100

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lecidea allotropa Nyl.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Bacidia allotropa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Bacidiaceae

Genus

Bacidia

Species

allotropa

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Bacidia allotropa (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Description

Thallus forming a thin film over soil, rock or clay, 1-5 cm diam. olivaceous or brownish often ± blackened, minutely granular or effuse, occasionally areolate in parts and lifting from substrate. Apothecia black, plane or convex, 0.1-0.6 mm diam., epruinose, matt or shining, with a thin, concolorous margin, or immarginate. Epithecium blue-black, 5-13 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, c. 45 µm tall. Hypothecium colourless or pale straw-coloured. Ascospores 3-septate, oval to oblong-ellipsoid, ends rounded, 10.2-12(-13) × 3.4-5 µm.